Knitted garment and method of manufacturing same



Patented Oct. 31,1893.

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vJOHN HOLMES, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

KNITTED GARMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,907, dated October 31, 1893.

I v Application led February 15l 1893. Serial No. 462,429; (No model.)

To all whom tm/ay concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN HOLMES, of Bos?v ton, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Knitted Garments and Methods of Manufacturing the Same, of which the following description,.in` connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specitication,like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its obj ect to improve the class of knitted garments known in the trade as sweaters, my invention relaiin g to the collar part thereof.

In accordance with my invention the collar is knitted as a tube, one end of the tube being knitted to the body of the garment at the neck opening, the other end of the neck tube being turned in so as to constitute a double, thick neck, the end so turned in being Suitably stitched to the garment.

Figure 1 in side elevation shows a knitted garment ready for the addition to it of the neck, the neck being represented by dotted lines. Fig. 2, is a section showing the completed, neck inturned and secured to the garment.

In the manufacture of the garment 'made the subject of this invention, I take the body A of the garment knitted in any usual Way, it being provided with a neck opening. The body is then taken to a knitting machine and the loops at the edge ofthe neck Opening are transferred to or put upon both sets of needles of a Lamb or like knitting machine capable of knitting a circular fabric, and the needles are provided with yarn and the inachine is started and the neck B is knitted as a circular fabric, the said neck being knitted onto the body. The neck having been knitted of sufcient length, is then run off the needles. In Fig. l, the dotted lines represent, it will be supposed, the circular fabric knitted to the body for the neck. The neck so knitted to the body is then inturned, as represented in Fig. 2, by full lines,and .the eX- treme end of the neck run olf the needles as described is united in suitable manner to the body of the garment, as by a looping machine.

The circular neck affords proper elasticity, fits the neck of the wearer uniformly, is Without seam in the direction of the height, and eects a material saving in cost of manufacture. y

. Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A knitted garment having a neck made as a circular seamless fabric and knitted at one end to the body ofthe garment at its neck opening, said circular neck being inturned to make a neck of double thickness, and secured to the body of the garment, substantially as described.

2. The herein described method of producsing a knitted garment which consists in knit- 

